Pisidium hibernicum

Pisidium hibernicum
external view of valve of Pisidium hibernicum
Conservation status
NE[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Heterodonta
Order: Veneroida
Suborder: Sphaeriacea
Family: Sphaeriidae
Genus: Pisidium
Subgenus: Hiberneuglesa
Species: P. hibernicum
Binomial name
Pisidium hibernicum
Westerlund, 1894[2]

Pisidium hibernicum is a species of freshwater bivalve from family Sphaeriidae.

Pisidium hibernicum and P. pulchellum in Danmarks Fauna

Description

The 2.5-3.5mm. shell is very inflated (convex) hence the common name Globular Pea Shell.The central umbos is prominent. The periostracum (surface) is silky glossy and sculptured by fine, regular striae. In colour it is greyish to brownish white often with scattered red-brown mineral deposits.

Distribution

Its native distribution is Palearctic.

References

  1. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 17 May 2007.
  2. Westerlund C. A. (1894). "Specilegium malacologicum. Neue Binnen-Conchylien aus der paläarktischen Region. V." Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 26 (9/10): 163-177, 190-205. Frankfurt am Main.
  3. Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/redlist.htm
  4. 4.0 4.1 (Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
  5. Šteffek J. (2005). "First record of Pisidium hibernicum (Mollusca, Bivalvia) from Slovakia". Biologia, Bratislava, 60: 136.
  6. Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 109, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
  7. Kuiper, J. G. J.; Økland, K. A., Knudsen, J., Koli, L., von Proschwitz, T., and Valovirta, I. (1989), "Geographical distribution of the small mussels (Sphaeriidae) in North Europe (Denmark, Faroes, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden)", Annales Zoologici Fennici 26 (2): 73–101
  8. Roy Anderson ,2005 An annotated list of the non-marine molluscs of Britain and Ireland Journal of Conchology, 38 (6): 607–637, (published 2005) .

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